Re: Implementing incremental backup

* Claudio Freire (klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> I don't see how this is better than snapshotting at the filesystem
> level. I have no experience with TB scale databases (I've been limited
> to only hundreds of GB), but from my limited mid-size db experience,
> filesystem snapshotting is pretty much the same thing you propose
> there (xfs_freeze), and it works pretty well. There's even automated
> tools to do that, like bacula, and they can handle incremental
> snapshots.

Large databases tend to have multiple filesystems and getting a single,
consistent, snapshot across all of them while under load is..
'challenging'. It's fine if you use pg_start/stop_backup() and you're
saving the XLOGs off, but if you can't do that..

Thanks,

Stephen